For twelve years, Chen Jin, an old-town watch repairman, kept his head down as security guards shoved him, parents berated him, and passersby trampled him. Even his daughter, Chen Xiaoman, thought he was useless. He believed that if he lived as an ordinary man, he could keep his daughter safe as she grew up.
Then Xiaoman fought back after being bullied at school and injured someone. The school, a counseling center, and the Lu family joined forces to spin it as her having “left of her own accord.” Everyone said she was a rebellious runaway, but Chen Jin pieced together an operation trafficking children from an old watch, a forged signature, background noise on a recording, a deactivated bus card, and a strange sound from a vehicle’s rear right wheel.
No one knew that twelve years ago, this so-called useless father had been an elite soldier who survived an undercover operation, codename 019.
His daughter is his bottom line. Now that someone has crossed it, he has no choice but to return to his old self.
